Cmbb won't run

[PoorOldSpike]

This guy tells me he's having trouble getting cmbb to run, can any techy whizzkids offer advice?
He says -

Yes the game looks like it would be great if I could get it to run.
The problem is that I’m running very modern hardware (not vista though) and when I installed the demo last night all the words were blank from within the game.
I thought “Ok troubleshooting page”
Applied the relevant fixes………..no good
Added 98, Me compat to the exe file no good.
Put the game back to original state, minimized and then full screen……….game crashes and no alt/ctrl/del or alt tab will exit.
“Computer recovered from a serious error” was my welcome message on restart.
ARGH!!!!!! I haven’t seen that for ages.
Oh well back to the old drawing board then..